We are currently discussing designing an autonomous structure to watch the films in/ from for future installations. Previous installations presented the entire process of the project as installation, spanning several rooms, with significant emphasis on the film as the final piece. By designing an apparatus for viewing the films we will , to some extent, be reformulating the work.
Before outlining a brief there are some questions and points that we've touched on in conversation, but haven't yet discussed in detail.
- How would positioning the film within an architectural structure (that we design) affect the film?
- Will the structure serve the films? Or will the films be subservient to the structure?
- The structure will go some way to dictating the manner in which the film is viewed/ received. The viewer may be subservient to the structure.
- We are showing them how to read the project. Giving it form. Allocating 'weight'
- In generating ideas for the design how do we engage more with the content of the films? Should we avoid being too 'formal' and detached?
- A lot of our input in the project has been structural. We have architect-ed: the workshop activities, the making of the film, the editing, the installation of the work in the gallery. Whilst the Patua have been the storytellers, the image-makers. They have projected their ideas, processed and interpreted, converted them into language, stories and images. We have been the framers, the punctuation, the material and the manner of presentation.
- who is the viewer?
- what do we want from them?
- What are we trying to communicate to them?
- which films will we show?
- how will they relate to each other- in space?
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